BEIJING, Nov 20 (Reuters) - All aboard a Chinese aircraft were safe after it was forced to make an emergency landing on the southern resort island of Hainan due to a technical fault, state media said on Thursday.

The Shanghai Airlines Boeing 737 was flying from Shanghai to Cambodian capital Phnom Penh with 149 passengers late on Wednesday when an alarm alerted the pilots to a problem with a fuel pump, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The aircraft landed safely in Hainan's provincial capital Haikou, the report added.

Another aircraft was sent to Haikou and the passengers finally arrived at their destination early on Thursday, it said.

An investigation is under way. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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